A new paper from T. Z. Pereira revisits one of the core claims about 19th-century Brazil: that high inflation meant long-run stagnation. New evidence from 20,000 monthly quotations shows that inflation was overestimated, and real income growth after 1850 was stronger than previously thought.

How much did it matter to grow up in a household without a male breadwinner? In early-twentieth-century urban Spain, longitudinal data show long-term costs: men had lower biological well-being (by height), reported more health problems at age 21, and died earlier. #EconHistory #Inequality

Article: Methodological fragmentation in economics: plurality, tensions, and productive paradoxes, by Florian Bally-Rommel doi.org/10.1080/0967...

A new blog post and article on the development of tax farming and its replacement by state-run collection. "Tax Farming and State Capacity: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia" By M. Hup Find the blog here: ehes.org/2026/04/27/t...

🚨🚨New article available online! 🚨🚨 "Land use and agricultural lease incomes in Argentina’s Pampas, 1895–1947: A quantitative approach" By Emiliano Salas Aron Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Postdoc opportunity at @UB-IPERG (University of Barcelona) 1-year position in Historical Political Economy. 💶 €35–40k | Start: Fall 2026 🗓️ Deadline for Expressions of Interest: June 5, 2026 All the info: 🔗 www.ub.edu/iperg/postdo...

Why did Cape Colony households keep accumulating slaves after Britain banned the trade in 1807? Household-level panel data from two contrasting districts points to slaves functioning as capital assets, not just labour. @LundUniversity #EconHist #Slavery #CapeColony #Cliometrics

A summary of my PhD, which was shortlisted for the Luzzatto prize of the European Historical Economics Society, has been published in the European Review of Economic History! Many thanks to the @theehes.bsky.social for this opportunity to share my research! academic.oup.com/ereh/article...

Was Venice really the benchmark of Italian decline? New wage data (1390–1790) reveal when rural–urban labour markets decoupled (plagues) and how the wage gap evolved. Our novel welfare ratios (maize diffusion + rural prices) revise the long-run picture.

New article and blog post! "Rural Penalty in Morbidity: Cause-Specific Morbidity among Working-Class Men and Women in Early Twentieth Century Sweden" By L. Eriksson, L. F. Andersson and B Harris

Interesting article about why Ashanti (in modern-day Ghana) didn't mint coins, though they mined gold, were familiar with coins and had the skills to mint coins. Instead, the kingdom adopted gold dust – weighed precisely for transactions – as currency: aeh.uwpress.org/content/53/1...

A new issue of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought is now available www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another issue of Economic Thought: History, Philosophy, and Methodology is available online et.worldeconomicsassociation.org/issues/vol-1...

A new article and blog post "Historical Monetary Strategies: Achieving Long-Term Price Stability in Medieval Sweden" By R. Edvinsson and R. Svensson

A new article and blog post: "Inequality in Child Mortality Persists Between Generations in the Netherlands, 1835–1919" From Ingrid van Dijk (@ingridvandijk.bsky.social)

New article and blog post now available: Women’s Union Awakening: Early Impacts on Gender Wage Gaps (Yecla, Spain, 1895-1935) P Beneito, J J García-Gómez & A Martínez-Soto show unions raised men’s wages—but not women’s, widening the gap. Early unions were ineffective advocates for female workers.

A new article and blog post! "Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831" By Stephen Billington (@steve-bill-econ.bsky.social) and Joe Lane doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉 Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community. #HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService

New paper and blog post! "The Edwardian Property Slump: An Historical Analysis (1895-1914)" By A. M. Samy doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

This workshop is co-organised by @pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @victorgayeco.bsky.social, @jeanlacroix.bsky.social, @thomasbaudin.bsky.social, @mariebgl.bsky.social‬. Members of #econhist, @echistsoc.bsky.social, @theehes.bsky.social — please circulate! Many of you may be interested 🙌

Now on Early View: 'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'. By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger. @camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social ‪@yaleemd.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

At long last, my full book manuscript is off to the publisher for the final time. 18 months of 5am wake-ups have resulted in 110,000 words about Americans long, contentious struggle to come to terms with George Washington and slavery. Forthcoming from @uncpress.bsky.social in 2026!

🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce” 📌 €25,000/year + fees 📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed 📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025 👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... #PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

⏰ Deadline Approaching – Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award ⏰ The European Historical Economics Society invites submissions for the Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award for outstanding doctoral work in economic history. 🗓 Deadline: 30 June 2025

New paper and blog post: "The Land of Opportunity? Social Class, Returns to Migration, and Occupational Mobility of Swedish Immigrants, 1880–1910" By M. Castillo doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

July 1 is the deadline for submissions to the SJ Butlin Prize ($1000) for the best PhD or Masters thesis on Australian or New Zealand economic history accepted from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025. Enquiries to the selection committee chair at [email protected] 📉📈🗃📗🍎 #history #AcademicSky

We're looking for candidates to apply for a three-year postdoc! @marrv.bsky.social @tamboduc.bsky.social @upna.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/postdo...

#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵

New blog post! Why did wages remain stagnant in Ottoman state textile factories during the second half of the nineteenth century? Tamer Güven (@tmrguven.bsky.social) constructs a new wage series for Ottoman state textile factories using unexplored archival records from the Ottoman Archives.

New article by Èric Gómez-i-Aznar: 📜🧮 Numeracy in 18th-Century Catalonia: A Key to Understanding the Role of Human Capital in Early Industrialisation? Published in EHES, exploring arithmetic capacity as an indicator of human capital before the Industrial Revolution. 👇 #EconomicHistory #Catalonia

📢 New paper alert! "The determinants of the skill premium in late medieval and early modern Europe, 1400-1800" by @BrioschiA (@QUBelfast and @ceph_ie) & Mattia Fochesato (@Unibocconi and @DondenaCentre) is now available for early view. Findings below! 🧵⬇️ #EconHistory #SkillPremium

I am happy to announce that my paper has been published as an advance article in the European Review of Economic History. @theehes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...

Any great PhD or postdoctoral researchers out there who fulfil the attached criteria and who are interested in: 1) Formal logical models of electoral systems 2) Multilevel regression + poststratification 3) Digitising comparative elections data Please let me know! I want to get you to Manchester!

New blog post and upcoming article: "The political economy of skills, occupational entitlements, and social mobility: evidence from industrialising Coventry, 1790-1850" By Henderson, L. and Kaiser, M. ehes.org/2025/04/11/t...

New advanced article: The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach By G. Barone, D. Chilosi, C. Ciccarelli (@carciccar.bsky.social) and G. de Blasio. doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC ✅ 3 years 📊 Mixed methods 💰 Resources for data & conferences 👥 Good group of people working on similar things www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...

Healthcare jobs have grown 2x faster than the overall labor market since 1980 Healthcare overtook retail to become largest industry by employment in 2009 New working paper w/ @gottliebecon.bsky.social, @kevinrinz.bsky.social and @victoriaudalova.bsky.social on the rise of healthcare jobs

Our article 'Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white-collar jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)' has been converted into Open Access! See: doi.org/10.1093/ereh.... See the summary below by the EHES!

The 2025 PKES Summer School in Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy is open for registration! June 22–June 25, University of Greenwich. Places are available both with and without accommodation, starting at £40. postkeynesian.net/event/2025-p...

New blog post on previously announced paper! #persistentbusinessfamilism #SouthernItaly #economichistory #sna #didmodel ehes.org/2025/03/13/t...

New publication "The Roots of Business Familism in Southern Italy. A Quantitative Analysis of the 19th Century" By R. Rondinelli, M. C. Schisani and G. Ragozini doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

New paper "Anatomy of a premodern state" By L. F. Costa, A. Henriques and N. Palma (@nunopgpalma.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

New publication "The Elderly Bias of the Spanish Welfare State (1958–2012)" By G. Souto, A. Herranz-Loncán, S. Espuelas, G. Abio and C. Patxot doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

📢 We're Hiring! 📢 I'm looking for a PhD student to join me @sdueconhist.bsky.social to work on research in health care, education, and medical innovation in the US. 👉Fully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk 👉Deadline: 7 April Come be part of an exciting research environment—apply now! ✨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq

Today LSE's own Noah Sutter (@noahsutter.bsky.social) presented his paper "A Testament to Revolution - New Data on Wealth at Death and Wealth Elasticity Estimates for France, 1791-1870" in our graduate seminar.

New Publication Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg By F. Wahl (@wahlfabi.bsky.social) and T. H. Huning (@thilohuning.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

‼️ Call for papers: 📌 Young economic historians 📌 Any research and 🌎 areas welcome! Come visit us in beautiful Göteborg! And 🫵🏻 don’t forget to spread the word!

New publication Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white collar-jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890) By Gabriele Cappelli (@gaber86.bsky.social) and Johannes Westberg (@dr-jwestberg.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/ereh...